FWIW, my guess is that the reason this appears to be "fixed" when
dropping to a smaller pagesize is simply because you're exhausting the
stack more slowly. Given that it takes a long while reproduce with juju
(or, so I've been told), it does also beg the question if juju has a
slow memory leak.
** Package changed: linux (Ubuntu) => gccgo-4.9 (Ubuntu)
** Changed in: gccgo-4.9 (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
** Summary changed:
- gccgo compiled binaries are killed by SEGV on 64k ppc64el kernels
+ gccgo on ppc64el using split stacks when not supported
** Tags removed: kernel-da-key performing-bisect
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1304754
Title:
gccgo on ppc64el using split stacks when not supported
Status in “gccgo-4.9” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
On kernels 3.13-18 and 3.13-23 (there may be others) the kernel is
killing gccgo compiled binaries
[18519.444748] jujud[19277]: bad frame in setup_rt_frame:
0000000000000000 nip 0000000000000000 lr 0000000000000000
[18519.673632] init: juju-agent-ubuntu-local main process (19220)
killed by SEGV signal
[18519.673651] init: juju-agent-ubuntu-local main process ended, respawning
In powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c:
sys_rt_sigreturn is jumping to the badframe: label and executing an
unconditional force_sigsegv which is delivered to the userland
process. Like C++, gccgo tries to decode SIGSEGV as a nil pointer
access and blame some random function that happened to be the top
stack frame.
Reverting to the 3.13-08 kernel appears to resolve the issue which
(weakly) points the finger at the recent switch to 64k pages.
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